"Jimmy Patterson Books"

Rafe Khatchadorian is horrified that because of a missed science assignment, he has to go to summer school. Instead of three weeks in a school room, he finds himself as a volunteer at BushyTail animal refuge, which is really hard, smelly work--and somehow he needs to use the experience (and the help of a girl he meets there) to produce a first-class science report.

Ages 8-12.